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January 1 - Watergate scandal: John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up.

January 1 - Work abandoned on the British end of the Channel Tunnel.

January 2 - The Federal Rules of Evidence are approved by Congress.

January 5 - The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing 12.

January 7 - OPEC agrees to raise crude oil prices by 10%.

January 8 - Ella Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, becoming the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States who did not succeed her husband.

January 8 - U.S. President Gerald Ford appoints Vice President Nelson Rockefeller to head a special commission looking into alleged domestic abuses by the CIA.

January 10 - Japanese soldier Teruo Nakamura surrenders on the Indonesian island of Morota.

January 14 - Seventeen-year-old heiress Lesley Whittle is kidnapped from her home in Shropshire, England by the Black Panther.

January 20 - Michael Ovitz founds the Creative Artists Agency.

January 20 - In Hanoi, the Politburo approves the final North Vietnamese military offensive against South Vietnam.

January 29 - The Weather Underground bombs the U.S. State Department main office in Washington, D.C..

January - Altair 8800 is released, sparking the era of the microcomputer.

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February 1 - The Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation was launched, became the first TV station in the Philippines

February 4 - The first successfully predicted earthquake occurs in Haicheng, Liaoning, China.

February 9 - The Soyuz 17 crew (Georgi Grechko, Aleksei Gubarev) returns to Earth after 1 month aboard the Salyut 4 space station.

February 11 - Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for the leadership of the UK Conservative Party in the United Kingdom.

February 11 - Colonel Richard Ratsimandrava, President of Madagascar, is assassinated.

February 13 - Fire breaks out in the World Trade Center.

February 21 - Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell, and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, are sentenced to between 30 months and 8 years in prison.

February 23 - In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly 2 months early in the United States.

February 26 - A fleeing IRA terrorist shoots and kills off-duty London police officer Stephen Tibble, 22, as he gives chase.

February 27 - The Movement 2 June kidnaps West German politician Peter Lorenz. He is released on March 4 after most of the kidnappers' demands are met.

February 28 - A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people.

February 28 - In Lomé, the capital of Togo, the European Economic Community and 46 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries sign a financial and economic treaty, known as the first Lomé Convention.

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March 1 - Color television transmissions begin in Australia.

March 4 - Charlie Chaplin is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.

March 6 - Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement over their border dispute.

March 6 - A bomb explodes in the Paris offices of the Springer Press. The 6 March Group (connected to the Red Army Faction) demands amnesty for the Baader-Meinhof Group.

March 7 - The body of teenage heiress Lesley Whittle, kidnapped 7 weeks earlier by the Black Panther, is discovered in Staffordshire, England.

March 8 - The United Nations proclaims International Women's Day.

March 9 - Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.

March 10 - Vietnam War: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thuot, South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon.

March 10 - The Rocky Horror Picture Show opens in New York City with four performances.

March 11 - The leftist military government in Portugal defeats a rightist coup attempt.

March 13 - Vietnam War: South Vietnam President Nguyen van Thieu orders the Central Highlands evacuated. This turns into a mass exodus involving troops and civilians, the so-called Convoy of Tears.

March 15 - In Brazil, the Estado da Guanabara (State of Guanabara) merges with the state of Rio de Janeiro, under the name of Rio de Janeiro. The state's capital moves from the city of Niterói to the city of Rio de Janeiro.

March 22 - Ding-a-dong by Teach-In (music by Dick Bakker, text by Will Luikinga and Eddy Ouwens) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1975 for the Netherlands.

March 25 - King Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a nephew with a history of mental illness; the killer is beheaded on June 18. (King Khalid succeeds Faisal.)

March 28 - A fire in the maternity wing at Kucic Hospital in Rijeka, Yugoslavia, kills 25 babies.

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April 3 - Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title.

April 4 - Vietnam War: The first military Operation Babylift flight, C5A 80218, crashes 27 minutes after takeoff, killing 138 on board; 176 survive the crash.

April 9 - Asia's first professional basketball league, the Philippine Basketball Association, plays its first game at the Araneta Coliseum.

April 13 - An attack by Palestinians on a church in Ain El Remmeneh, Lebanon, sparks over 15 years of civil war.

April 13 - A coup d'état in Chad led by the military overthrows and kills the President François Tombalbaye.

April 17 - Following the Khmer Rouge capture of Phnom Penh, Pol Pot proclaims the Democratic Republic of Kampuchea in Cambodia and becomes its Prime Minister (1975-1979).

April 24 - Six Red Army Faction terrorists take over West German embassy in Stockholm, take 11 hostages and demand the release of the group's jailed members; shortly after, they are captured by Swedish police. (See 1975 Occupation of the West German embassy)

April 25 - Vietnam War: As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost 10 years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.

April 30 - Vietnam War: The Vietnam War ends as Communist forces take Saigon and South Vietnam surrenders unconditionally.

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May 5 - The Busch Gardens Williamsburg Theme Park opens in Virginia.

May 12 - Mayaguez incident: Khmer Rouge forces in Cambodia seize the American merchant ship SS ''Mayaguez'' in international waters.

May 15 - Mayaguez incident: The American merchant ship Mayaguez, seized by Cambodian forces, is rescued by the U.S. Navy and Marines; 38 Americans are killed.

May 16 - India annexes Sikkim.

May 16 - Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

May 25 - Indianapolis 500-Mile Race: Bobby Unser wins for a second time in a rain-shorted 174 lap, 435 mile (696 km) race.

May 28 - Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States.

May 30 - 1972 Olympic runner Steve Prefontaine dies in a car accident.

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June 5 - The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.

June 5 - The United Kingdom votes yes in a referendum to stay in the European Community.

June 9 - The Order of Australia is awarded for the first time.

June 10 - In Washington, DC, the Rockefeller Commission issues its report on CIA abuses, recommending a joint Congressional oversight committee on intelligence.

June 19 - Lord Lucan is found guilty in absentia of the murder of nanny Sandra Rivett.

June 25 - Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares Emergency in India, suspending civil liberties and elections.

June 25 - Mozambique gains independence from Portugal.

June 26 - Two FBI agents and 1 AIM member die in a shootout, at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

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July 1 - The Postmaster-General's Department is disaggregated into the Australian Telecommunications Commission (trading as Telecom Australia) and the Australian Postal Commission (trading as Australia Post).

July 4 - Sydney newspaper publisher Juanita Nielsen disappears, and is presumed to have been murdered.

July 5 - Cape Verde gains independence after 500 years of Portuguese rule.

July 6 - The Comoros declare their independence from France.

July 9 - The National Assembly of Senegal passes a law that will pave way for a multi-party system(albeit highly restricted).

July 12 - São Tomé and Príncipe declare independence from Portugal.

July 17 - Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit, marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.

July 31 - In Detroit, Michigan, Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa is reported missing.

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August 1 - The Helsinki Accords, which officially recognize Europe's national borders and respect for human rights, are signed in Finland.

August 8 - The Banqiao Dam, in China's Henan Province, fails after a freak typhoon; over 200,000 people perish.

August 8 - Samuel Bronfman, son of the president of Seagram's, is kidnapped in Purchase, New York.

August 11 - British Leyland comes under British government control.

August 11 - Mário Lemos Pires, Governor of Portuguese Timor, abandons the capital Dili, following a UDT coup and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.

August 15 - The Birmingham Six are wrongfully sentenced to life imprisonment in Great Britain.

August 15 - Mujibur Rahman, president of Bangladesh, is killed during a coup.

August 20 - Viking program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.

August 24 - Officers responsible for the military coup in Greece in 1967 are sentenced to death in Athens. The sentences are later commuted to life imprisonment.

August 25 - Rock musician Bruce Springsteen releases his third album, Born To Run.

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September 5 - In Sacramento, California, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a follower of incarcerated cult leader Charles Manson, attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is thwarted by a Secret Service agent.

September 14 - Rembrandt's painting "The Night Watch" is slashed a dozen times at a gallery in Amsterdam.

September 15 - The French department of Corse, comprising the entire island of Corsica, is divided into two departments: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud.

September 18 - Fugitive Patricia Hearst is captured in San Francisco.

September 20 - The term of Tuanku Al-Mutassimu Billahi Muhibbudin Sultan Abdul Halim Al-Muadzam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Badlishah, as the 5th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, ends.

September 21 - Sultan Yahya Petra ibni Almarhum Sultan Ibrahim Petra, Sultan of Kelantan becomes the 6th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.

September 22 - U.S. President Gerald Ford survives a second assassination attempt, this time by Sara Jane Moore in San Francisco.

September 30 - The Hughes Helicopters (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing IDS) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.

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October 9 - A bomb explosion outside Green Park tube station near Piccadilly in London kills 1 and injures 20.

October 11 - American television network NBC airs the first episode of Saturday Night Live (George Carlin is the very first host; Billy Preston and Janis Ian the very first musical guests).

October 11 - Bill Clinton marries Hillary Rodham, whom he met at Yale Law School. His wife will remain known by her maiden name for a few years.

October 16 - Five Australian-based journalists are killed at Balibo by Indonesian forces, during an incursion into Portuguese Timor.

October 21 - Carlton Fisk of the Boston Red Sox hits a home run in Fenway Park, in the 12th inning of the 6th game of the 1975 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds, to win what many consider the greatest World Series game of all time.

October 27 - Robert Poulin, 18, begins shooting at St. Pius X High School in Ottawa, Canada and then shoots himself, killing 1 and wounding 5.

October 29 - Peter Sutcliffe (the "Yorkshire Ripper") commits his first murder, Wilma McCann.

October 30 - Prince Juan Carlos becomes acting Head of State of Spain after dictator Francisco Franco concedes that he is too ill to govern.

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November 3 - An independent audit of Mattel, one of the United States' largest toy manufacturers, reveals that company officials fabricated press releases and financial information to "maintain the appearance of continued corporate growth."

November 3 - The first petroleum pipeline opens from Cruden Bay to Grangemouth, Scotland.

November 6 - The Green March begins: 300,000 unarmed Moroccans converge on the southern city of Tarfaya and wait for a signal from King Hassan II of Morocco to cross into Western Sahara.

November 10 - United Nations Resolution 3379: By a vote of 72 to 35 (with 32 abstentions), the United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism. The resolution provokes an outcry among Jews around the world.

November 10 - The 729-foot-long freighter SS ''Edmund Fitzgerald'' sinks during a storm 17 miles from the entrance to Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.

November 10 - Lev Leshchenko revives Den Pobedy, one of the most popular WWII songs in the USSR.

November 11 - Angola becomes independent from Portugal; civil war soon erupts.

November 11 - Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam and commissions Malcolm Fraser as Prime Minister.

November 11 - The first annual Vogalonga rowing "race" is held in Venice, Italy.

November 14 - Spain abandons Western Sahara.

November 18 - General Vasco Goncalves is ousted as Prime Minister of Portugal.

November 20 - Spanish dictator Francisco Franco dies.

November 20 - Former California Governor Ronald Reagan enters the race for the Republican presidential nomination, challenging incumbent President Gerald Ford.

November 21 - The rock group Queen releases the album A Night at the Opera, including their hit single "Bohemian Rhapsody."

November 22 - Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of dictator Francisco Franco.

November 25 - Suriname gains independence from the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

November 25 - The Irish Republican Army is outlawed in Britain.

November 27 - Ross McWhirter, the co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records, is shot dead by the PIRA for offering reward money to informers.

November 28 - Portuguese Timor declares its independence from Portugal as East Timor.

November 29 - The name "Micro-soft" (for microcomputer software) is used by Bill Gates in a letter to Paul Allen for the first time (Microsoft becomes a registered trademark on November 26, 1976).

November 1975 – While disabled, the submarine tender USS ''Proteus'' (AS-19) discharges radioactive coolant water into Apra Harbor, Guam. A Geiger counter at two of the harbor's public beaches shows 100 millirems/hour, 50 times the allowable dose.

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December 2 - The communist Pathet Lao takes power in Laos.

December 7 - East Timor is invaded by Indonesia.

December 21 - Left-wing terrorists, including Carlos (the Jackal), kidnap delegates of an OPEC conference in Vienna. They kill 3 hostages, extort $5 million ransom and escape into the Middle East.

December 29 - A bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport, killing 11.

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January - Volkswagen introduces the Golf, its new front-wheel-drive economy car, in the United States and Canada as the Volkswagen Rabbit.

In New Zealand, Māori leader Whina Cooper leads a march of 5000 people in support of Māori claims to their land

The Third Cod War between UK and Iceland lasted between November 1975 - June 1976

Government of Colombia announces finding of Ciudad Perdida

Spanish army quits Spanish (Western) Sahara. Sahrawi Republic (RASD) is created. Morocco invades ex-Spanish Western Sahara.

First use of the term fractal

Victoria (Australia) abolishes capital punishment

South Australia becomes first Australian state to decriminalize homosexual acts between consenting adults

MIND opens

Some members of Jehovah's Witnesses, based on the group's chronology, thought that Armageddon would happen in 1975 and a few of them sold their houses and businesses to prepare for the new world paradise which they believe will exist when Jesus sets up God's Kingdom on earth.

BACCHUS Network, American college alcohol peer-education network established.

Iron Maiden, English heavy metal band was formed by Steve Harris.

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January 3 - Danica McKellar, American actress

January 5 - Bradley Cooper, American actor

January 9 - Kim Mathers, former wife of rapper Eminem

January 11 - Bunny Poe, American musician

January 13 - Shazia Mirza, British comedienne

January 15 - Edith Bowman, British Radio DJ

January 17 - Tony Brown, New Zealand Rugby Union footballer.

January 20 - Mark Allan Robinson, Canadian recall leader

January 22 - Balthazar Getty, American actor

January 25 - Tim Montgomery, American athlete

January 25 - Mia Kirshner, Canadian Actress

January 25 - John Wade, National Football League

January 28 - David Zingler, American writer

January 29 - Sara Gilbert, American actress

January 30 - Yumi Yoshimura, famous Japanese Singer Puffy Amiyumi

February 2 - Todd Bertuzzi, Canadian hockey player

February 2 - Ieroklis Stoltidis, Greek footballer

February 4 - Natalie Imbruglia, Australian actress and singer

February 5 - Adam Carson, American drummer

February 18 - Keith Gillespie, Northern Irish footballer

February 18 - Gary Neville, English footballer

February 19 - Daniel Adair, Canadian drummer (Nickelback)

February 20 - Brian Littrell, American singer, member of Backstreet Boys

February 22 - Drew Barrymore, American actress

February 23 - Michael Cornacchia, American actor

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March 5 - Jolene Blalock, American actress

March 5 - Niki Taylor, American model

March 9 - Roy Makaay, Dutch football player

March 11 - Eric the Midget, member of the Wack Pack from radio's The Howard Stern Show

March 15 - will.i.am, American rapper

March 15 - Eva Longoria, American actress (Desperate Housewives)

March 15 - Veselin Topalov, Bulgarian chess player

March 17 - Andrew Martin, American Professional Wrestler

March 19 - Vivian Hsu, Taiwanese singer, actress and model

March 27 - Stacy Ann Ferguson, American actress/singer

April 4 - Scott Rolen, baseball player

April 4 - Delphine Arnault, billionaire French businesswoman LVMH

April 6 - Zach Braff, American Actor

April 7 - Ronde Barber, American football player

April 7 - Tiki Barber, American football player

April 9 - Robbie Fowler, British footballer

April 14 - Amy Dumas, American professional wrestler

April 15 - Paul Dana, American race car driver (Indy Racing League) (d. 2006)

April 22 - Greg Moore, Canadian race car driver (d. 1999)

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May 1 - Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroonian footballer (d. 2003)

May 2 - David Beckham, English footballer

May 3 - Kimora Lee Simmons, American fashion designer

May 7 - Jason Tunks, Canadian Olympic discus thrower

May 10 - Hélio Castroneves, Brazilian race car driver

May 12 - Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby player

May 15 - Ray Lewis, American football player

May 17 - Sasha Alexander, American actress

May 18 - John Higgins, Scottish snooker player

May 19 - London Fletcher, American football player

May 27 - Jamie Oliver, British chef and television personality

May 25 - Lauryn Hill, American musician

May 27 - André 3000, American musician (OutKast)

June 4 - Angelina Jolie, American actress

June 9 - Andrew Symonds, Australian cricketer

June 10 - Nicole Bilderback, Asian-American actress

June 17 - Chloe Jones, American actress

June 18 - Martin St. Louis, Canadian hockey player

June 19 - Ed Coode, British rower

June 23 - KT Tunstall, singer-songwriter from St Andrews, Scotland.

June 24 - Christie Rampone, American soccer player

June 25 - Linda Cardellini, American actress

June 25 - Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player

June 27 - Tobey Maguire, American actor

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July 1 - Sufjan Stevens, American folk musician

July 6 - Curtis Jackson, a.k.a. 50 Cent, American rapper

July 9 - Jack White, American rock and blues musician. Shelton Benjamin, American Professional Wrestler

July 12 - Hannah Waterman, British actress

July 15 - Jill Halfpenny, British actress

July 17 - Konnie Huq, English television presenter

July 18 - Torii Hunter, baseball player

July 24 - Torrie Wilson, American professional wrestler and model

July 27 - Shea Hillenbrand, baseball player

July 27 - Alex Rodriguez, baseball player

July 30 - Graham Nicholls, British artist

July 31 - Simon Hirst, British DJ

July 31 - Annie Parisse, American actress (Law & Order)

August 5 - Kajol Devgan, Indian actress

August 7 - Charlize Theron, South African actress

August 15 - Kara Wolters, American basketball player

August 22 - Sheree Murphy, English actress

August 24 - Hayato Sakurai, Japanese martial artist

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September_7 - Renato "Babalu" Sobral, Brazilian martial artist

September 9 - Michael Bublé, Canadian Musician

September 11 - Brad Fischetti, American musician

September 17 - Constantine Maroulis, American singer

September 17 - Austin St. John, American actor

September 17 - Jimmie Johnson, American race car driver

September 17 - Juan Pablo Montoya, F1 Racing Driver

September 18 - Richard Appleby, English football player

September 23 - Chris Hawkins, British radio personality

September 25 - Matt Hasselbeck, American football player

September 25 - Declan Donnelly, British TV presenter and half of TV duo Ant and Dec

October 2 - Michel Trudeau, son of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Trudeau (d. 1998)

October 5 - Kate Winslet, British actress

October 7 - Rhino, American Professional Wrestler

October 14 - Floyd Landis, American cyclist

October 23 - Odalys Garcia, Cuban-born actress

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November 10 - Markko Märtin, Estonian race car driver

November 14 - Travis Barker, American musician (Drummer) Blink 182, The Aquabats, Transplants, Box car racer and +44

November 17 - Diane Neal, American actress

November 18 - David Ortiz, Dominican Major League Baseball player

November 18 - Anthony McPartlin, British TV presenter and one half of Ant and Dec.

November 19 - Sushmita Sen, Indian beauty queen and actress

November 20 - Tímea Vágvölgyi, Hungarian erotic star

November 20 - Davey Havok, American lead singer of AFI.

November 21 - Chris Moneymaker, American poker player

November 24 - Lee Wan Wah, Malaysian badminton player

December 2- Malinda Williams, African American actress

December 5 - Ronnie O'Sullivan, British snooker player

December 11 - Gerben de Knegt, Dutch cyclist

December 13 - Tom Delonge American musician (Vocals and gitaur) Blink 182, Box car racer and Angels & Airwaves

December 16 - Benjamin Kowalewicz, Lead singer of Canadian rock band, Billy Talent

December 16 - Frode Fjerdingstad, Norwegian photographer

December 17 - Milla Jovovich, Ukrainian actress and model

December 18 - Eugene American Professional Wrestler

December 18 - Masaki Sumitani, Japanese television performer

December 18 - Trish Stratus, Canadian professional wrestler and fitness model

December 20 - Bartosz Bosacki, Polish footballer

December 21 - Paloma Herrera, Argentine ballet dancer (American Ballet Theatre)

December 22 - Crissy Moran, American erotic actress

December 22 - Stanislav Neckář, Czech ice hockey player

December 23 - Sky Lopez, American actress

December 26 - Marcelo Ríos, Chilean tennis player

December 27 - Heather O'Rourke, American actress (d. 1988)

December 30 - Tiger Woods, American golfer

December 30 - David Cameron, American Hockey Player

For musicians born in 1975, see 1975 in music.

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Will Mastin, American vaudevillian

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January 8 - David Marshall "Carbine" Williams American inventor (b. 1900)

January 8 - Richard Tucker, American tenor (b. 1913)

January 19 - Thomas Hart Benton, American artist (b. 1889)

January 24 - Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (b. 1902)

January 27 - Bill Walsh, American film producer and writer (b. 1913)

February 4 - Louis Jordan, American musician (b. 1908)

February 8 - Robert Robinson, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)

February 10 - Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet and writer (stroke) (b. 1910)

February 11 - Richard Ratsimandrava, Madagascar President, Assisinated (b. 1931)

February 13 - André Beaufre, French general (b. 1902)

February 14 - Julian Huxley, British biologist (b. 1887)

February 14 - P. G. Wodehouse, English writer (b. 1881)

February 16 - Morgan Taylor, American athlete (b. 1903)

February 19 - Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (b. 1904)

February 24 - Nikolai Bulganin, Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1895)

February 25 - Elijah Muhammad, American Black Muslim leader (b. 1897)

February 26 - Stephen Tibble, London police officer (shot) (b. 1953)

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March 7 - Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher and literary scholar (b. 1895)

March 7 - Ben Blue, Canadian actor and comedian (b. 1901)

March 8 - George Stevens, American director, producer, and cinematographer (b. 1904)

March 9 - Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor (b. 1888)

March 9 - Joseph Dunninger, American mentalist (b. 1892)

March 13 - Ivo Andric, Serbo-Croatian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)

March 14 - Susan Hayward, American actress (b. 1917)

March 15 - Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (b. 1906)

March 16 - T-Bone Walker, American musician (b. 1910)

March 16 - Richard W. DeKorte NJ State Energy Administrator and former member of the New Jersey General Assembly (b. 1936)

March 25 - King Faisal of Saudi Arabia (b. 1906)

April 5 - Chiang Kai-shek, President of the Republic of China (b. 1887)

April 10 - Walker Evans, American photographer (b. 1903)

April 13 - N'Garta Tombalbaye, President of Chad (b. 1918)

April 17 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher and president (b. 1888)

April 23 - William Hartnell, British actor (b. 1908)

April 24 - Peter Ham, Welsh musician (b. 1947)

April 30 - Gen Paul, French artist (b. 1895)

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May 5 - Moe Howard, American actor (b. 1897)

May 8 - Avery Brundage, American President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1887)

May 13 - Bob Wills, American musician (b. 1905)

May 18 - Leroy Anderson, American composer (b. 1908)

May 23 - Moms Mabley, American comedienne (b. 1894)

May 25 - Count Dante, American martial artist, founder of Black Dragon Fighting Society; noted for his self styled "Deadliest Man Alive" ad which ran in comic books.

May 30 - Steve Prefontaine, American distance runner (b. 1951)

June 3 - Eisaku Sato, Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1901)

June 26 - Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish priest and founder of Opus Dei (b. 1902)

June 28 - Rod Serling, American television screenwriter (b. 1924)

July 17 - Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (b. 1893)

July 19 - Lefty Frizzell, American singer (b. 1928)

July 29 - James Blish, American writer (b. 1921)

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August 8 - Julian Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist (b. 1928)

August 9 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (b. 1906)

August 10 - Robert Barton, Irish politician and last surviving signatory of the Anglo-Irish Treaty (b. 1881)

August 15 - Mujibur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (d. 1975)

August 16 - Vladimir Kuts, Soviet runner (b. 1927)

August 19 - Mark Donohue, American race car driver (b. 1937)

August 28 - Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor

August 29 - Eamon de Valera, third President of Ireland (b. 1882)

September 10 - George Paget Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)

September 16 - Irene Hayes, Ziegfeld girl and businesswoman (b.1896)

September 20 - Saint-John Perse, French diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)

September 24 - Earle Cabell, Texas politician (b. 1906)

September 27 - Jack Lang, Australian politician (b. 1876)

October 10 - Norman Levinson, American mathematician (b. 1912)

October 21 - Charles Reidpath, American athlete (b. 1889)

October 30 - Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)

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November 2 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director (b. 1922)

November 5 - Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1909)

November 20 - Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain (b. 1892)

November 27 - Ross McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (b. 1925)

November 29 - Tony Brise, English racing driver (b. 1952)

November 29 - Graham Hill, English race car driver (b. 1929)

December 1 - Anna E. Roosevelt, American radio personality (b. 1906)

December 1 - Nellie Fox, baseball player (b. 1927)

December 4 - Hannah Arendt, German political theorist (b. 1906)

December 24 - Bernard Herrmann, American film composer (b. 1911)

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Physics - Aage Niels Bohr, Ben Roy Mottelson, Leo James Rainwater

Chemistry - John Warcup Cornforth, Vladimir Prelog

Medicine - David Baltimore, Renato Dulbecco, Howard Martin Temin

Literature - Eugenio Montale

Peace - Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov

Economics - Leonid Kantorovich, Tjalling Koopmans

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Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan